"It appears that Regina Spektor has finally crossed over from word-of-mouth cult to left-field star, judging by her rapturous reception at a packed Birmingham show on Monday. Almost before she settled at her grand piano, audience members were yelling out marriage proposals and strange sexual propositions.
The 29-year-old New Yorker just laughed before launching into her kooky urban shanties full of breathy babble and exaggerated glottal stops"...[read more @Times online]
"Mostly focusing for the first half of the set on her new album, the pleasant surprise of the evening was how well Laughing At sounded when accompanied live by her two-man string section. I loved the piano on Machine as well. At the same time, neither was quite up to the standard of Ode to Divorce, which seemed to hold the entire crowd spellbound." [read more]
"Things really heat up when said chanteuse Regina Spektor arrives though, humbly taking to her piano as she receives the kind of rapturous reception usually reserved for deities and Obama. Joined by a drummer and two guys on string duties, she launches into The Calculation's jaunty yet lovelorn math problem without fuss, and it feels more than apt that the song features the repeated outburst of 'Hey, this fire/ It's burning/ Burning us up'." [read more]
The Calculation
Eet
Folding Chair
Ode tDivorce
Machine
Laughing With
Sailor Song
One More Time With Feeling
Blue Lips
On the Radio
Dance Anthem of the 80’s
Silly Eye-Color Generalizations
Bobbin’ for Apples
That Time
Après Moi
Poor Little Rich Boy
Ballad of a Politician
Man of a Thousand Faces
[encore]
Samson
Us
Fidelity
Hotel Song
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